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11 Cards in this Set
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Edwin Drake
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successfully use a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania
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Bessemer Process
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technique that involced injecting air into molten iron to remove the carbon and transform it into steel
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Thomas Edison
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became a pioneer on the new industrial frontier when he established the world's first research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey
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Christopher Sholes
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invented the typewriter in 1867
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Alexander Graham Bell
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invented the telephone
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transcontinental railroad
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a railroad line linking the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the United States; finished in 1869
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George Pullman
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built a factory for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars on the prarie miles from the center of Chicago
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Credit Mobilier
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a construction company that the Union Pacific Railroad created that enables them to skim off railroad money for themselves
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Munn v. Illinois
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the Supreme Court upheld the Granger laws by a vote of seven to two
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Interstate Commerce Act
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reestablished the right of the federal government to supervise railroad activities and established the ICC
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Andrew Carnegie
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strong laborer who moved to the US when he was 13
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